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Deadline of Jan. 12 to purchase buy-in waiver for 2009 nursery cropsKansas Bill R. Fuller, state executive director of the Kansas Farm Service Agency encourages producers to pay a fee for nursery crops to become eligible for the 2009 Supplemental Disaster Assistance Programs authorized in the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008. For 2009 nursery crops to remain eligible for the following Supplemental Disaster Assistance Programs, producers must purchase a waiver by Jan. 12, 2009 if insurance was not obtained timely on the crops: --Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised fish; --Supplemental Revenue Assistance Program; --Tree Assistance Program. To be eligible for these programs, producers must purchase at least catastrophic risk protection level of crop insurance for ALL insurable crops and/or Noninsurance Crop Disaster Assistance Program coverage for ALL non-insurable crops. Because the deadline of Aug. 14 to purchase crop insurance for 2009 nursery crops passed within 90 days of the enactment of The Act, producers who were eligible to purchase 2009 crop insurance but did not, can 'buy-in' to be eligible to participate in the 2009 disaster programs by paying an administrative fee. The buy-in fee must be paid at the administrative FSA county office by Jan. 12, 2009. The buy-in fees do not provide any crop insurance or NAP coverage, but provides eligibility to participate in the 2009 disaster programs. All crop acreage in all counties that is planted or intended to be planted for harvest must be covered. To become eligible for 2009 disaster programs, producers must fill out a CCC-752 for insurable crops and a CCC-753 for noninsurable crops and pay applicable buy-in fees. For CAT the fees are $100 per crop, but not more than $300 per producer per county, or $900 total per producer, for all counties. Producers who meet the definition of a Socially Disadvantaged, Limited Resource, or Beginning Farmer or Rancher are not required to pay the buy-in fee. Contact your administrative FSA county office to determine if you meet one of those definitions. 12/1/08 Date: 11/26/08
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